Nancie Ellen Caraway (born February 2, 1942) is the former First Lady of the U.S. state of Hawaii from 2010 to 2014.

Caraway is a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa political scientist, feminist scholar and activist, a member of the university's Globalization Research Center and its Director of Women's Human Rights, leading its Trafficking Project.

She received her bachelor of arts degree in political science at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 1980.

She was a resident of New York City while studying for her Master of Science degree in journalism at Columbia University.

[4] An author, Caraway won the Victoria Schuck Award—an international award for the best book on women and politics—from the American Political Science Association for her 1992 book, Segregated Sisterhood: Racism and the Politics of American Feminism,[5] also the title of her University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa at doctoral dissertation.